[mythtv-users] access denied for remote frontend

Eric Sharkey eric at lisaneric.org
Thu Jan 5 16:54:20 UTC 2006


Thanks for the reply, Steve.

> On Thursday 05 Jan 2006 16:16, Eric Sharkey wrote:
> You need to change mysql's startup file...
> 
> /etc/sysconfig/mysqld

I assume you mean /etc/mysql/my.cnf.

> eg...
> 
> # (oe) Remove --skip-networking to enable network access from
> # non local clients. Access from localhost will still work.
> # MYSQLD_OPTIONS="--skip-networking"
> MYSQLD_OPTIONS=""
> 
> # (oe) set TMPDIR and TMP environment variables
> TMPDIR="${datadir}/.tmp"
> TMP="${TMPDIR}"

How does this help?

As I said, I have no problems connecting to the mysql server
from the remote frontend using the mysql command line client.
The mysql server is configured for remote network access and it
works.  The problem is not a skip-networking setting or anything
like that.  If it was, I couldn't connect at all.

I have tmpdir set to /tmp.  I've not read anything that suggests
that this setting would be important, provided that /tmp has
sufficent space.

The problem seems to be that the mythfrontend client is not sending
the right password or not sending it in the right way.  I can't
figure out why.

Eric


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